{"id":296535,"date":"2026-09-07T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=296535"},"modified":"2026-09-07T18:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:05:26","slug":"european-commission-spokesperson%d6%89-armenia-will-be-able-to-obtain-visa-free-travel-regime-with-the-eu-when-the-time-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/296535\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission spokesperson\u0589 Armenia will be able to obtain visa-free travel regime with the EU &#8220;when the time comes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The European Commission has not confirmed that Armenia will be able to obtain visa-free regime with the EU in 2029, as Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hopes. This was stated by European Commission spokesperson Paula Pinho at a briefing in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is still too early to predict whether 2029 will be the year of visa liberalization. It is too early to speak with such precision,&rdquo; she said. According to Pinho, this will only happen &ldquo;when the time comes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Pashinyan announced his intention to obtain visa-free travel regime with the EU at a press conference with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on July 2 in Yerevan. At the time, the President of the European Commission did not correct him.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has not confirmed that Armenia will be able to obtain visa-free regime with the EU in 2029, as Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan hopes. This was stated by European Commission spokesperson Paula Pinho at a briefing in Brussels. &ldquo;It is still too early to predict whether 2029 will be the year of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296536,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296535\/revisions\/296536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}